~ Henrik Ibsen Quotes ~

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Henrik Ibsen Quotes


A major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father" of modern theater and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theater was required to model strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European tradition. Many consider him the greatest playwright since Shakespeare.

Here are some famous quotes by Henrik Ibsen. 

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

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A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh still it was splendid to sail it!

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To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried and not waste time about it.

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Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.